Irwin L. Watts

I was born in Massachusetts in 1931 and my parents moved to Michigan around 1934. I worked all my life and accomplished many things. I met my lovely wife in 1958 in Omaha Nebraska and married in 1959 we were married for almost 50 years before she passed away. I beleive we had a wonderful life and a little different then most people so I wrote a book called More than One Life after I lost my wife due to many illnesses. I also finished a book that my wife started with me of our adventures of raising Great Horned Owls on the property of the Milwaukee railroad where we ran a restaurant for the railroad in Atkins Iowa. I was a taxidermist for about 22 years and had the privilge to do a little teaching of it at Coe College in Cedar Rapids Iowa. We were married there in 1959 and decided to come back to Michigan where I was originally from to try make our business grow. I think you will find our life in both of these books very facinating. Both books are dedicated to my lovely wife who was ill for many years before her passing. My interists are many as I am now retired and I love the outdoors and the arts. I do a little painting some clay modeling and model boat building and photography and writing of course. I have a Blog page that I think you will like that can be seen by looking it up on Google (Life's Dreams By Irwin Watts.) I hope you enjoy my book and the poems on the blog some were taken from the poems my wife wrote and are in our books.

One of the first of the books I wrote was of my beautiful wife,

Titled "More than one life"

As we had a great 47 years together.

When we first got married we had the privilege of running a restaurant for the Milwaukee Railroad in Atkins Iowa, There we became friends with the game warden and raised abandoned baby Great Horned Owls till they were big enough to release. so my next book was titled

"The Great Horned Owls of Iowa

I studied Taxidermy there at the restaurant and through The Northwestern School of Taxidermy. We decided to move back to Michigan where I was originally from.

There my wife and I opened a Taxidermy Studio for the next 23 years and that would be my next book,

"Taxidermy" My life of Hunting , Fishing and becoming a Taxidermist.

From there I did a some Model boat building and also some clay modeling so I wrote a couple of small books on that.

Mafia Born was a book I had the opportunity to edit and publish for a friend that had put a lot of work writing this book years ago. A very interesting story of the early days of the underworld.

All of the names in this book have been changed as to protect any one of whom might still be alive.